{
 "municipality_id": "gx-001641",
 "municipality": "Mississauga",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "animal_control",
 "label": "Dogs & animal control",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-09",
 "official_website": "https://www.mississauga.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Animal Care and Control By-law 0098-2004",
   "category": "animal_control",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2004-03-10",
   "document_url": "https://www.mississauga.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/21145710/Animal-Care-and-Control-By-law-0098-2004.pdf",
   "summary": "Regulates dog and cat licensing, animal keeping, animals at large, prohibited animals, and related animal care and control matters.",
   "capture_sha256": "01aa4867972014641904899bad7849133c7fa6674c526a979d40887c47771d03",
   "captured_at": "2026-06-10T22:04:10+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/01aa4867972014641904899bad7849133c7fa6674c526a979d40887c47771d03.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "licence_required": true,
    "leash_rule": "Owner must leash dog at all times unless on owner's lands, consented lands, or a designated Leash-Free Zone",
    "max_animals": "No more than four (4) animals on any premises",
    "fine_range": "Minimum $500, maximum $100,000; continuing offence: minimum $500, maximum $10,000 per day; multiple offence: minimum $500, maximum $10,000 per included offence"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "licence_required": "s. 3(1): \"Every Owner of a Dog or Cat is required to obtain a Licence\"",
    "leash_rule": "s. 20.1(1)",
    "max_animals": "s. 16(1)",
    "fine_range": "s. 43(1.1)(a)(b)(c)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/mississauga/animal-control/text-01aa48679720/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/mississauga/animal-control/"
}